Queen Butterfly
by Dawn Currie
Title
Queen Butterfly
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Close-up of a Queen Butterfly photographed in the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida.
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Queen Butterfly (Danaus gilippus): There's more royalty in the butterfly world! The Queen is a 'Milkweed' butterfly. Sometimes mistaken for the Monarch, the Queen is a wee smaller in size with its noble orange-brown coloration edged in a black of two lines of white polka-dots. They lay their eggs on milkweed and related plants that will provide food for the caterpillars. The adults enjoy nectaring from various flowers.
Queen butterflies are resident in extreme southern United States south through tropical lowlands of the West Indies and Central America to Argentina. Regular stray and sometime colonist in the plains; rarely along Atlantic coastal plain to Massachusetts and the Great Plains. I found this individual at the Jacksonville zoo.
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March 31st, 2014
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Comments (53)
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Dawn – your marvelous macro shot has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Anita Faye
Dawn, happy to feature your beautiful work on Groovy Butterflies! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html
Anita Faye
Dawn, happy to feature your beautiful work on Groovy Butterflies! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p